Recently, I had a painful interaction with one of my patients. He was interested in marrying a girl who had a physical disfigurement (one of her hands was slightly shorter than the other). He kept telling me that he wanted to give her a “life”….
Do you get up from the right side of your bed every day? Have you forwarded messages of “pass this message to 25 people to bring you good luck, avoiding which will invoke a curse” to unsuspecting friends knowing fully well that the recipients…
Positive thinking is a word I often hear. Patients who are distressed that they are not able to rid themselves of their negative thoughts (and therefore cultivate positive ones), attendants who explain that they counselled their child/ the patient to develop positivity, newspapers filled with…